25-07-2013, 12:41 PM
And here is the last one just out of the bag.
I havn't weighed it yet.
How long does it take to make a wing like this ???
I worked out that once a few things are in place It's not difficult to make a finished wing with ailerons cut in and hinged, painted the whole lot, ready for fitting servos in about 3.5 - 4 hours. This is from from scratch and includes making and prepairing the cores, cutting the glass, painting and laying it all up.
But doesn't include making the templates to cut the cores or making the wire cutter or the jig to hold the templates or the Vac-bag or the stencils for painting or the shaping of the plastic sheets for forming the wing skins. It also doesn't include the time taken to reasearch and source materials. These things all have to be done but only once regardless of the number of wings made.
It obviously doesn't include time inbetween paint drying and resin curing as other things can be done then.
“The knack of flying is learning how to throw your machine at the ground and miss.”
"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your thoughts turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return." ~Leonardo Da Vinci